AFA accuses maize millers of engineering artificial grain shortage

A customer buys maize from Uganda at a market near the Busia border. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) has accused millers and traders of claiming an artificial maize shortage in the country to armtwist the State agency to lift importation ban.

AFA imposed the maize importation ban for grains from Tanzania and Uganda on March 5 claiming most of the grains from the two market were infected with aflatoxin. The ban escalated the bilateral trade standoff between Kenya and Tanzania.

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